false 2029925 1 Pramila Jayapala rejected her indigenous Indian culture when she was a young child, having been taught and raised in Western schools and ideology. For years, Jayapala held this uncomplicated opinion: "India repressed and backward, America creative and advanced." But after working a soulless job in investment banking and marketing, she finally came to realize that "there was a woman within me, waiting to emerge, a persona that included a complexity of new images of homeland, identity, life values, and work."<p> Eventually she left Seattle, Wash., where she had worked, to embark on a two-year pilgrimage through India. Japayala takes us on the underground tour--letting us see this complex and spiritually fascinating country through Western eyes but with a native guide. She openly questions the feminine and class restraints of India, yet somehow she never becomes self-righteous or didactic. Through this brave, unflinching voice we find a mentor for self-discovery as well as a model for how to know and question our own homelands. At its core this is a global manifesto in which Jayapala recognizes that spiritual growth is the only way to bring about social and political change. But at its heart this is a dynamic spiritual memoir as Jayapala continually returns to her personal journey, including the gripping crescendo--a miraculous story of her son's premature birth in Bombay. <I>--Gail Hudson</I> 2034568 3 2000 Pilgrimage: One Woman's Return to a Changing India total:6|5:2|4:1|3:3|2:0|1:0| 6 23 13 3 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 12 04:09:55 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 04:11:13 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Feb 13 10:02:58 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 10:02:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 01 20:19:49 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 20:30:09 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jun 17 11:44:13 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 11:45:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jan 28 09:26:11 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 09:26:11 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Dec 08 09:31:14 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 09:31:17 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Dec 07 16:46:44 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 16:46:44 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Nov 27 07:30:17 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 07:30:17 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Wed Oct 22 11:04:50 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 11:04:50 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Aug 14 21:50:26 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 21:50:26 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jun 02 21:56:09 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 21:56:19 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Feb 15 21:54:39 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 21:54:39 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Oct 12 10:57:06 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 12 11:03:06 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2029925